I'd say boys in general prefer makeup.
(First, I want to say this is just about physical appearance, I'm not saying if someone's not beautiful, that no one will ever love them. It would definitely be a better world if people judged on inward beauty rather than outward beauty)
I'm not one one of them, though. I prefer a girl who's naturally beautiful, and doesn't need facepaint to be physically attractive. That said, a little makeup can go a long way to make someone good looking. That's great for people who aren't that pretty, so they can feel self-confidence and have a chance at being physically attractive.
On the other hand, for pretty much everyone, there's gonna be someone who finds you attractive, since everyone has a different view of what a beautiful girl looks like. Although I have seen some people that I genuinely felt bad for, that even makeup couldn't improve that much, but that's pretty rare.
I think it's pretty sad that society has devolved to the point where it's socially discouraged to not wear makeup. Women should feel happy with what they look like, ’cause they're stuck with that for life (unless they get plastic surgery, or get horribly disfigured in a fire, etc. ).
So yeah, I think most boys prefer girls with makeup than without, because even an already beautiful girl can look even better with makeup. But again, personally, I'd rather a woman that is happy with what she looks like, and has a beautiful personality.
I don't think most men are necessarily lying most of the time. I think they truly believe that less makeup makes a girl look prettier, but I think that most men are very unaware of when a girl is wearing makeup or not. Some men also don't like the idea of make up because it can mistakenly be taken for fakeness, bitchiness, too high maintenance or insecurity. On top of that, I believe that many men want women to feel beautiful in their own skin although some men may have some selfish ulterior motives.
I think I am a lot more aware than most men. Maybe because I have 3 sisters. Some women actually do look better without makeup but I would say they're outliers. However, I do believe that letting a man see you in your natural state is necessary for a healthy relationship. In fact, if you don't have it on and he's still attracted to you, then I think that's a huge plus for both sides.
Most men I know actually like girls with less makeup. It all depends on the guys personality.
On the other hand you would have to put two equally beautiful women in a room with equally attractive personality to see if they prefer makeup or not.
They can prefer no makeup, but if a girl has better personality and it looks like she could be prettier than the other girl without makeup, they will prefer the girl with makeup.
Also it depends on context. Adjusting to situation adequately is seen as more attractive. A girl wearing makeup in a club or in a wedding, looks better than a girl with no makeup. A girl wearing makeup in the gym, beach or in an amusement park, looks silly and therefore less attractive than a girl with no makeup.
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The divide between men & women's opinion of what men prefer is telling. Why would an overwhelming majority of men say they dislike makeup, but the women disagree saying the men do not know what they are talking about?
The answer is simple. Men don't like being tricked but they don't mind accepting a little touching up. When a man says he does not like women who wear makeup, he means he is repelled by "cake-face" where no part of the face is uncovered by a painted-on mask. Boys & young fellows who do not know much about women might select painted vs. unpainted women.
When a woman says she knows men prefer her with makeup, it is because she hides the visibility of her makeup by bluring lines and blending things out, just like a man might blend the paint after doing bodywork on his '64 Mustang. Women of taste normally wear limited amounts of makeup, just a little bit of lip color, and eye enhancer & maybe a little blotch cover. Women skilled with makeup know to do it differently for bright sun, flourescent lighting, candlelight, club lighting & of course for outdoor activities. Tasteless/insecure women put on heavy makeup to go to the gym then try not to sweat so they do not damage their makeup while appearing "to workout."
Major disfigurements and minor blemishes are often covered by makeup. But some women wear so much makeup, they look like two completely different people with & without makeup. There is a place for "cake-face." It is on stage or in film where a particular role is played requiring a particular look. It is common for entertainers of both genders to do this.
Different people have different concepts of beauty. Some men are perfectly happy waiting an hour to see their woman after she "puts her face on." Personally, I prefer a woman who is attractive with no makeup and her hair all mussed up, someone I can take camping or hiking and enjoy the views of her even more than the views of nature I went to share with her.
I have known some women who looked better without makeup & was engaged to the first one. My current lady knows I prefer seeing the "blemishes" that are covered by body makeup when she works as a lingerie model. I joke not. I truly prefer seeing the tiny little spots on her body. It adds character & is her true appearance that very few get to see.
True beauty is not a matter of mere skin & bone shape. True beauty radiates from the soul through its windows, the eyes. True beauty is expressed by love for others, kindness, gentleness, self-control, slow-to-anger, hard-work, clean habits, fitness, clean eating, service to others, strong self-worth, a keen mind & a respect for nature. No amount of make-up can cover evil eyes, foolishness, selfishness, stupidity & shallowness.
In summary, there is a place for makeup and there are many ways to wear it poorly. When men notice your makeup, you probably did it poorly. If they do not notice it in close quarters, they perceive you as wearing none. Thus, the gender-based dichotomy.
I think there's two directions I would want to answer for.
1. I think women often think of makeup as simply 'making you more attractive' in a kind of neutral, nonnormative way, as though cosmetics were a hard science, a bunch of techniques which 'increase' your level of 'objective attractiveness'. So a person says that doing your lips like this makes them appear 'fuller', and this description is value neutral on its face, but 'fuller' is taken to be synonymous with 'better', ie. the subliminal statement is that fuller lips are better than smaller or flatter lips, and in this way normative statements are encoded in the whole discourse.
But we have to keep in mind that its normative statements can only be true of a specific - to be a little French - regime of desire; a context in which desire is organized. And this organization is arbitrary - not random or inexplicable but arbitrary in the sense that there are other, compting regimes of desire. In lesbian sexuality, for example, women generally do not wear makeup (even femmes) and 'natural', nonsynthetic features of her body are considered very attractive - body hair, scars, etc., things that cosmetics efface or remove, are objects of fascination for lesbians. When lesbians do wear makeup its often seen as orthogonal to 'attractiveness', & things like bright colours & other expressive things are more important.
But why do heterosexuals tend to find certain things more attractive, and lesbians different things more attractve? I dont think any biological explanation is satisfactory because you can see similar things happen across cultures, etc. I'll argue why I think this is in the next point.
2. When a man is thinking about a woman, there are multiple things acting on him that effect his desire. In our culture there is a bit of a suspicion towards anything synthetic, and he might feel that women wearing heavy makeup are too synthetic or are even in some sense tricking him. He resents it and he does not want to see it. So when a woman wears a lot of makeup it reads to him as a kind of negative signal - she's doing the thing he doesn't like, and he resents it. This bears on his desire for her. This is one reason that many men who insist that they hate makeup end up pointing to women who wear 'natural-look makeup' as their preference, because the makeup does its work without sending this negative signal.
But what work is it doing? It makes her lips appear larger, her eyes darker, etc. Why are these considered attractive by him, but not by everyone? [charlimit, rest of answer...]
It's sexy as hell when a girl is seriously cute going all natural. Most makeup is totally overrated and just marketed religiously by people like the Kardashians to keep you girls spending spending continuously and loading the Kardashian's (and other make-up mogul's) pockets. Us guys, we honest to god seriously don't notice nor care.
That being said, eyeliner is the one thing I do find makes an insanely hot difference. There's just something about it when LOADED on that makes a girl look really dark and mysterious and confidently sexy as anything. Lipstick in perticular is totally awful looking especially deep red colors. If you do put on lipstick, lipgloss looks 10x better, and make sure to get a nice hot pink color (not red). It just looks a lot more natural to men. Some girls can rock the whole goth black/purple color to and that looks hot when done well.
Apart from those to things, for the love of christ save your money. Don't waste it. Tons of make up just reminds me of when a 5 year old girl got into her moms makeup drawer looks like she drew a clown face on herself. It's really hard to get a boner when I feel like I'm nailing a clown-girl. Hope that helps. Minimal is better!!
Maybe a little. I think men really just find it difficult to vocalise what they're talking about.
You see, a lot of men like a feminine girl, a more girly type, not all, but quite a few. Of course 'femininity' is more about personality, but the traits perceived to be 'cute' or 'sexy' also show in appearance. Women putting on makeup, is actually one of those things that's perceived to be 'cute' and makes a girl more feminine, because she cares about her appearance.
However, we can all agree that dabbing on lipstick is completely different to aggressively drawing on your eyebrows and having huge quantities of makeup that is going off or noticeably placed product on your face (unblended contour and highlight - I'm lookin at you). You see the difference right, one is dainty and cute, one is aggressive, vain and sometimes, embarrassing.
Now I'm not shaming anyone, of course you don't live to please the male eye, and since it's your face, you can do what you want with it.
However, I think most makeup trends are so women can impress other women, and for me personally, I'm not trying to impress other women - I don't care. I'm going to look good for myself, and for the men that I like.
So yeah I get that it's confusing... men and women are confusing, but that would be my analysis of men + makeup. A natural beauty who can enhance herself and not change her whole face is kinda the goal for them.
I think most men don’t really have a good understanding of makeup. Most men think all makeup looks are colorful eyeshadows and lipsticks. So when they see natural looking makeup they are rarely able to tell that it’s makeup. Men have literally told me that I’m a “natural beauty” even though I was wearing foundation, concealer, eyeliner, mascara, highlighter, and lipstick. Good makeup (for a plain daily look) is supposed to natural. Most men prefer women with makeup and they just don’t realize that she’s wearing makeup.
They are not lying when they say they prefer less or no makeup. They also admit that some girls look better when they put on makeup, but they simply dont want an illusion that makeup provides, since if they start dating eventually she will have to show her true colors. Hardly any guy has a problem with subtle makeup, most of the times I hear they dont want a full glam everytime, cuz it doesn't look good, it shows that the girl is vain, and spends a lot of time on appearance. If I were a guy Id prefer less makeup too, kissing someone with tons of gloss on their lips, the foundation always rubbing off somewhere, that shit is gross.
To be completely honest, through middle school all the way up through college I never noticed whether a girl was wearing make up or not, and even if they weren't it didn't really change anything for me. After talking with my wife we agreed that society has caused a very bad stigma when it comes to cosmetics. Making it seem like if a female doesn't spend a ton of money on expensive makeup than they're not considered beautiful. This is false. If someone ever says otherwise, they're a very vain person.
We as man prefer the cutest women in the room lol, that centers the whole thing in the conception of a single guy about what is -cute- now what it's the thing Is that some women look bad with makeup, stiletto nails? A painted eyebrow? Cat shades with the whole color from the box over the eyes? Ugly puffy sandals with a Gucci logo with a dress? You start to see the girl in the room that only have lipstick and a nice french hair style with a nice color jacket and a nice touch of perfume way tooooo better than the whole tuned style woman in my opinion, also some guys see the long run scenario dating girls, the heavy coated girl will face the aging skin in like 2 to 8years of continuous makeup chemicals from nighparties and surgery, while you see other girls just have nice skin with some creams, definitely a woman you want to cuddle with every morning than the pale burned skin ghost that still smell to hair spray from a couple days you got out, it's about likes tho
makeup like many other things in woman's beauty care. is meant to enhance or highlight the natural beauty she has already. not cover up her flaws or imperfections like so many use it for. because those are what make her unique and set her apart from the pack.
so that is why I will typically say I prefer little or no makeup on a woman. but there is always the "no makeup - makeup look". with that typically what is wore is natural or neutral tones. that helps promote and highlight her natural beauty.
This can be true, but not when the makeup is applied by a six year old using their weak hand and end up looking like a clown because they put too much.
In he moment and purely looks wise, do I prefer women with makeup? Yes, absolutely. Is it better in the long run if they're going to be my girlfriend? Probably not, no. And this is what we mean by "Preferring women with no makeup on". Seeing my girlfriend with no makeup feels a lot more organic and refreshing in my opinion (not that I have one atm 😅)
I am not able to vote it.. just because I am somewhat agree to both.
Mostly men make such remark in order to make partner believe she looks beautiful naturally but main fact is monetary waste in make up.. apart from this she will look beautiful for the time being then again to her natural look..
So, why to pose for better look for a period. If you don't like such look then why did you date.
Make up is just for occasion purpose and men gets attracted to it as well.
So I am still confused which side should I walk..
I think I prefer make on some of the occasion and mostly natural.
A cross between the two. I don't think they're lying, but I do think they're mistaken. They probably truly do THINK they don't want a woman to wear makeup. The image they have in their minds is most likely that women would look overdone and unattractive with makeup and that it would be caked onto her face. But when they see it in front of them and it is skillfully well-applied and enhances her features, they like how it looks.
Men are not lying when they say they prefer women with less or without makeup. In fact they could never be more truthful.
The only reason as to why women still get confused, is because women focus on the immediate reaction of men.
Yes of course when any woman puts on make up, they will look georgious.
Instead of comparing a woman without makeup verses a a woman wearing makeup, you should compare how men react to two women without make up. That will reveal more about men than anything.
If you put two women both wearing makeup in front of me, the one who I find more pretty is more likely a better artist in applying make up than the other.
Where as if I have two women both without makeup, I know without a doubt, that I am choosing them based on natural beauty.
Kinda. I think most men are a bit hypocritical about this too. They know almost nothing about makeup yet they say stuff like this.
Most men see women with natural makeup on and think those women look like that 24/7. From that they form their opinions and that's where's the problem born.
False, naturally beautiful girl needs no makeup.
An average looking girl needs just a face powder, and/or concealer... maybe just a little bit of foundation.
I TOTALLY agree! I just don’t think men realize what a woman actually looks like without makeup! They see a beautiful woman (wearing a shit ton of makeup - with natural colors etc) and they think: “see! Look at her! She’s gorgeous and she has NO makeup on!” 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe that a lot of men will appreciate the natural beauty of a woman, not the chemicals on her face which makes her age soon and hide who she really is.
Imagine what would happen when a man and a woman are in bed? Is she still going to have makeup on at bedtime? Can the man have a passionate night with a woman who looks like she's ill with pale face in comparison when she's without the makeup?
Or even, can a man kiss a woman whose face is caking with foundation, lips taste like chemicals?
Sure, there might be some men who likes women with full and/or heavy makeup, but from what I've read on here, and according to the votes, they don't compose of the majority.
I fell in love with a girl before i've ever seen her wearing any makeup, and i believe i'd never be attracted to her if she wore it.
We're together now, and i don't like when she's wearing make up, and protest against it (not stopping her tho, if she wants she can wear it).
Some guys might like when girls are wearing it, but you should know they're only attracted to your looks, and will also be attracted to other pretty girls. You should find a guy who likes you for who you are, so don't wear it too often ;)
I find that for most woman need little or not makeup to make themselves beautiful... which doesn't mean that I dont notice nor find woman who do wear make-up unattractive but i would suggest that those that feel the need to use make-up to purchase a Luminous Air make-up system to apply their make-up so they can look more natural especially if they're using a noticeable cakey foundation I purchased one as a surprise gift for my girlfriend and she simply loved and loves using it now it appears that she has no makeup on at all since using Luminous Air
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This is an absolute turn off! She looks orange! Her eyes have so much work into them that she will get black goo going down her eyes over her face if she cries.
This is what we want. She does have some makeup? I am sure she does, but not nearly as much the scarecrow above does.
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